Anniversaries are useful milestones for measuring progress or, in some cases, decline. In that way, college basketball mimics life, with coaches judged, year after year, by how their programs have grown — or not. Come Tuesday night, it will be exactly a year since Maryland lost at home to then-No. 4 Syracuse, 57-55. With eight seconds remaining, guard Nick Faust (City) had a go-ahead shot blocked. As time expired, guard Seth Allen's would-be game-winning 3-pointer hit off the backboard, then clanged off the rim. In a season that began with a one-point loss to eventual national champion Connecticut and ended with a two-point loss to Florida State in the Terps' final...

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